Success! I installed it using the "Run as Administrator" and it worked. Thanks for the tip.
To get the file to associate was a bit more difficult. Windows was not allowing me to select mged.exe and defaulted to Adobe. I had to open the registry and look under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\mged.exe where it still had the old 7.24.0 path listed. I modified the entry to the correct path for the new mged and exited the registry. Windows then allowed me to select mged.exe as the associated program for a *.g file. I assume when I uninstalled 7.24.0, it could not change the registry. Thanks for the assist! Robert Anderson SURVICE Engineering 4141 Colonel Glenn Hwy, Suite 209 Dayton, OH 45431 bob.ander...@survice.com T: (937)431-9914 From: Christopher Sean Morrison [mailto:brl...@mac.com] Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2016 3:08 PM To: BRL-CAD Developer Mailing List <brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [brlcad-devel] 7.26 Windows install questions On Sep 08, 2016, at 11:56 AM, Bob Anderson <bob.ander...@survice.com<mailto:bob.ander...@survice.com>> wrote: I tried to install the latest and greatest BRL-CAD onto my Windows 7 machine and have encountered a few problems. Although I have admin privileges, it will not allow me to install on C: or C:\Program Files. I am forced to install into my user account, which is fine, but does not make a lot of sense to me. What kind of error are you seeing? This sounds like a problem with the installer not having specified to run "As Administrator". Try right-clicking the installer and look for a shield icon with "run as administrator" next to it. Make sure it's enabled before running the installer if you want to install into Program Files. Please report if that works. We'll have to figure out how to modify the installer to conditionally do that if it works. After the install, I tried to make mged.exe the default application to open a .g file, however it is stuck on trying to open with Adobe Acrobat. I can open MGED and then browse to open a file, but nothing beats just double-clicking on the file itself. Any thoughts or suggestions? Did you try these steps? https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/18539/windows-7-change-default-programs Cheers! Sean
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